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Fin de siècle (世紀末)
a. Relating to or characteristic of the end of a century, especially the 19th century.
b. Themes: familial crisis, social estrangements, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the role of reading and writing, the impact of technology and the end of history
c. 4 representative works: 
              *** Hamlet, 
              *** Othello
              *** Shakespeare in love
              *** A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
d. Settings of Shakespearean works: 
              *** mostly in Italy (文藝、文明復興的國度), or 
              *** England (織布機的發明地、industrialization)

Characteristics vs. Personality 
a. Characteristics = not for describing a person
b. Personality = talking about a person

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (VIDEO)
a. Shakespeare
b. Impression of fantasy
c. Theme + Climax:
            *** Is there any freedom to choose who you love?
            *** 女性在社會中的弱勢
d. Movie:
         *** 1999: 配樂很棒、new innovation、衣服很現代化
         *** 1935 
d. Act 5 Scene 1
           *** “The forms of things, unknown, the poet’s pen, / Thurs them to shape, and give to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.” (line 15 – 17)
e. A comedy love story about 4 Athenians, Puck played the trick to those 2 men and 2 women.

Snowpiercer (末日列車)
a. 漫畫改編 2013
b. Environmental related 
c. "Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges." - IMBd

Othello
a. Interpretations of Shakespeare are key instrument with which Western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another.
b. Themes:
             *** Racist (黑摩爾人)
             *** 娶白人 

Circumstances
環境 (not environment)  而是和 “時空” 有關的。

愛情不是愛，是 mind。

三色堇 （cupid 誤射到的堇菜)